<p>^Could you please elaborate a little? Power seems to me the most boring of all EE work.</p>
<p>Thank you sakky for your thorough response, as always… and aibarr for your quick and useful replies as well.</p>
<p>I’m not particularly concerned about making money, and I’m sorry if my post gave you that impression. As you may already have felt from my other posts, I am very interested in research and working at the frontiers of science. I have always felt that EE is at a very unique intersection of basic science (physics) and technology. Upon hearing that it may go obsolete, I felt concerned about the quality of work that would exist 10, 15, 20, 30… years down the line.</p>
<p>I want to be well-paid (so that I can pay my bills and buy an average house/car) and well-respected, and I’m sure engineering will always be at least good enough for that. However, what I really want is to work on extra-ordinary and groundbreaking technology (research, development, … whatever) and make a difference. The particular field I am in does not matter too much (they are all coming together anyway) but I’ve always felt that EE will prepare me well to do this.</p>
<p>And this is why I’m concerned about the demand of EEs… the more demand there is, the more “hot” the field will be considered, and the more money may be poured into it, and the more research and development there will be. And since I’m particularly interested in physics (quantum and all) I was saddened by the projected demise of semiconductor research.</p>
<p>Thinking about Bell Labs and I think AT&T and IBM had large labs as well, always gets me excited. I would like to be part of an era of development just like that one.</p>